Hello, my mini kitties! Okay, so I read reviews and PMs, and there is one conflict between them...

SHOULD I MAKE CHAPTERS SHORT OR LONG? (I guess that short would mean the length that they are now...)

One person told me that short chapters are more effective, then someone else told me to make them longer... I AM CONFLICTED... So review and tell me! or I'll put up a poll... yeah. I'll put up a poll.

VOTE PLEASE. Now onto the story.

Love,

Kumo [=w=]

We arrive at a large white house with a beautiful garden in the front.

sunlight coming through the trees speckled the grass. A woman in her

late thirties opens the tan front door. Her pale pink hair is tied up in a bun

and she's drying off a metal mixing bowl.

"Kanade!" she yells, smiling, "Sweetheart, come here!"

Kanade waves, "Wait here," she tells me.

Kanade runs up to the woman. I see them talking, the woman pointing at me

and giggling. Kanade twirls her hair and shakes her head. I think that I know

exactly what they were saying. The woman says something, puts her finger up,

telling Kanade to wait, and goes back inside. Kanade waves me over. I walk

across the enormous front yard to get to the porch, where we sit on the porch

swing and wait. We don't say anything because of what the woman was

saying about us.

She thought we were dating.

I smile as I think that, holding back a laugh.

After a few minutes, the woman comes back, this time with her hair down,

without the mixing bowl and towel. She reaches out her hand as she says,

"Hi! I'm Kanade's mom. You can call me Mrs. Tachibana. Nice to meet you."

I shake her hand and respond,

"I'm Yuzuru Otonashi, an old friend of Kanade."

Kanade smiles, but her eyes look sad. Every time the past gets mentioned, she

gets upset. I wonder if she was faking a smile at the stream, too. I don't understand.

If she misses it, then why did she leave in the first place? This makes me angry, and I

clench my hands into fists, not realizing that I was still shaking Mrs. Tachibana's hand.

"Ow!" She exclaimed, pulling away, "You're really strong, huh?"

"Sorry," I pull back my hand and run it through my hair, embarrassed.

"So, are you guys, like, you know, going..."

"Um, we're going to the studio now, 'kay mom?" Kanade interrupts.

Mrs. Tachibana raises an eyebrow and smirks.

"'Kay, honey," she mimics her daughter.

When she goes inside, I'm still mad. I tell Kanade,

"I have to go. I can't stay anymore."

She looks confused, but I just walk across the lawn without looking back.

It's my turn to run away. I don't want to be constantly looking to the past

like it was sad. Those were some of the best years of my... my afterlife, I

guess. Kanade starts walking across the lawn too, calling my name.

"Otonashi!" she cries, "Wait! Where are you going? Otonashi! OTONASHI!"

I pick up my pace, but Kanade stands in the middle of the lawn. Finally she

Clenches her fists and screams,

"YUZURU!"

I stop in my tracks. She... she called me by my first name. I can't remember

the last time that she had said that. I'm frozen for a second, and she comes

running towards me. This makes me so angry and I don't know why.

Betrayal.

That's why.

Betrayal.

She left me. She left me, all alone when I asked her to stay! I told her, I told her

that we could stay together forever! But she left me! It isn't fair! I left because of

her! It was her fault! HOW COULD SHE?

That, that traitor.

I despise her. I despise her at that second. All of my anguish was caused by her.

I remember the night that she disappeared from my arms.

"I wish that I'd never met you," I whisper.

Kanade is right behind me.

"What?" she stares, shocked. I'm shocked too by what I've just said, but I won't stop.

"How could you? You left me. You left me with no one else to turn to. You were the

one who made me come back here. I was happy, Kanade, but..." I sob, "You took that

away from me too! How could, HOW COULD YOU?!"

I feel déjà vu as I run across the lawn, like it's the exact opposite of the incident on the

street. I don't care. She can chase me as long as she likes. But she'll never, she'll never

catch...

Or so I thought.

Kanade grabs my hand.

(AUTHOR'S NOTE: Go to this link and start playing the song from 1:18. It really enhances the story. Plus, it is just sooo perfect for this scene. AHHH I'm fangirling so much that alsgjaw;rjhowjijhklawj;lwrgjsrkhakwelhjrljhjaoj and ao;rjawolkhjlajkkldskffkkdlaowrg. So yeah.

Here's the link:

watch?v=mbJ0aXxpTfM

Remember, play the video from 1:18)

"Yuzuru!" She yells.

"What?! What do you want with me?" I scream back.

"I, I'm sorry," she cries, "I'm sorry Yuzuru. I know. I know that I left you! I know that I left

you, but, but I only did it so that we could find each other here! I wanted to be with my

other friends! Do you know how many friends I'd lost before?"

I turn away, but she turns my chin towards her.

"I love you," she whispers, "I love you so much. I honestly, truly couldn't imagine you not

being here. It would break my heart."

She smiles a little,

"Will I always have your heart?"

She leans in and kisses me, wrapping her arms around my neck.

It came as a shock, but I closed my eyes and let it happen.

She keeps hugging me, and she puts her head on my chest as I set my chin on her head.

"Yeah, I guess you will, huh?" I whisper as a single tear rolls down my cheek.

(I did that ending for my dear friend Emilia... AKA ItalyLover99 on Fanfic)